LAST YEAR'S Tripleprint Gold Cup winner Fondmort is likely to bid to become the first horse to win the Cheltenham feature for a second time.

Nicky Henderson's chaser was among 22 horses confirmed yesterday for the &#xA3;100,000 race on Saturday.

The seven-year-old beat Foly Pleasant, who is also among the entries, by six lengths in 2002 and again showed his liking for Prestbury Park when running out an impressive winner of last month's Paddy Power Gold Cup.

He will attempt to join Pegwell Bay (1988) and Senor El Betrutti (1997) as the only horses to have completed the Cheltenham "autumn double" in the same season.

Fondmort carried a mere 10st 5lb to victory 12 months ago, but has 11st 11lb this time and has drifted out to 6-1 from 5-1 with William Hill.

Top-weight on 11st 12lb is the Martin Pipe-trained Seebald, who was only sixth of seven behind Moscow Flyer in the Tingle Creek Trophy at Sandown on Saturday.